Snark incoming.

[krait]

Possibly one of the most useful features of a sci-fi/fantasy fandom: it's really easy to weed out fics you don't want to read, just by checking to see which ones can't spell the fandom-specific made-up words correctly. Kismesitude? Paidi Aiji? Valdemarian? NOPE, sorry, no +1 hit count for you!

(Also useful in these fandoms: excluding "human AU" from your search results; but that's another rant for a different day.)

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[cheyinka]

I can't picture it even as a joke except for that one summary, and that took me a good five minutes to come up with. I mean, I've read "everybody is a normal human on earth" AUs for Stargate Atlantis, and some of those are okay, but their aliens are humans, just humans who weren't born on Earth. Anything with nonhuman characters? Nooooope. (Both the "no human AUs" and "spell canon terms correctly" rules work for Babylon 5 fanfic, too, not that I expect they wouldn't.)